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BitBucket blog announces Pipelines Beta (coincidentally after I’ve spent about a week playing with Jenkins). These guys are dropping their Bamboo Cloud CI solution and instead provide this:
It looks a lot like TravisCI, but on steroids! Very good news!
GitHub blog says that from now on your profile can include the private repository contributions on your profile.
When enabled, these can make quite a difference in the number of the green boxes, showing your GitHub activity. Here’s an example from mine. Before enabling those, showing only Open Source contributions:
And here’s one after, including private repository contributions:
Indeed, it is a more accurate representation of my GitHub activity. Given that these days most of my private repository activity happens on BitBucket and not on GitHub, this is quite surprising.
It’s in Russian, but with English sub-titles. I’m pretty sure any company that has a portfolio section on their website went through something like this. More than once.
Slashdot is running the story about the Google vs. Oracle court case. I thought this bit was rather brilliant:
Schwartz’s second attempt at the breakfast menu analogy went much better, as he explained that although two different restaurants could have hamburgers on the menu, the actual hamburgers themselves were different — the terms on the menu were an API, and the hamburgers were implementations.”
One thought that cracks me up every now and then is about Greek programmers. In Greek language, instead of a question mark a semicolon is used.
In many programming languages, a semicolon is used to represent the end of statement. So, this:
$a = $b + $c; print $a;
to Greek programmers must be looking like this:
$a = $b + $c? print $a?
I don’t know about you, but to me this would be a constant confidence issue. It’s almost like I’m not sure what I’m going and asking the computer to confirm.
I’m sure though they have their ways of working around this …
By the way, while reading through the Wikipedia article linked above, I thought that the possible origins of the question mark were quite interesting:
That would also explain why not all the languages are using the question mark character.